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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
2
The notice previews the introduction of Byron's Hot Weather Shop next week with simple smart frocks described as cool and durable. It notes plain and printed silks in simple styles and implies the stock will appeal to shoppers seeking practical summer wear.
The General Conference discussed church leaders influencing elections amid a liquor war stance. Delegates opened funds for tornado relief, with hundreds collected for repairs and ministerial support. The meeting considered new memorials as index of ongoing church policy and social reform.
A regional drive seeks 22,300,000 to support a new college founded by Rev. Dr. James H. Griffin. Cardinal Tongherls serves as the active fund chairman while the college’s president recently announced no current shortfall.
Santa May 9. The current financial crisis prompts Mayor to tell all department heads to cut expenses as a mortarium on spending looms. City officials acknowledge the need for belt tightening to avert a deeper municipal shortfall.
Flames swept through a remote Idaho mining village killing most structures and leaving charred walls and ash. The isolated settlement, a relic of a once booming gold rush, housed about 5000 eager prospectors a year ago.
In a ruling to J. H. Walker, Texas land commissioner, the attorney general’s department held he should decline to sell unsurveyed public free school lands unless a prior purchase application was filed before August 10, 1920. The decision cites a post 1920 law withdrawing unsurveyed school lands from market.
W N Rutherford of San Angelo urged the sheriff department to drag the San Antonio River for his wife Mia Lula Rutherford 30 mother of three missing since Wednesday. He said she wandered along the river bank and had been in a San Antonio hospital. She left the hospital early Wednesday and had disappeared before. Rutherford, aided by Robert Orr, said she had vanished twice before and was found once on the river bank. An appeal was made to Dep Well Davis and Sheriff Alfonso Newton Jr. would be consulted. Firemen may assist in dragging the river.
Washington, May B: Robert Wilkins explorer of the top and bottom of the world may undertake a proposed trip beneath the Arctic Ice in an obsolete United States submarine converted into a submersible boat. The bearded explorer with Simon Lake called upon Assistant Secretary Jabecke of the navy to try to purchase such a boat. Whether the navy will sell has yet to be decided.
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